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...plain sight--no friends, no allies, no networking. When he suddenly resigned after teaching for two years, the department chair, John W. Addison Jr., tried and failed to talk him into staying. Not that dropping out was such a surprising move in that era. "It was not uncommon," recalls Addison, now professor emeritus of mathematics. "One of my advisees went and lived on a farm and did carpentry...
...uncommon at Harvard for professors to teach their own books...
...UNCOMMON FOR FILMMAKers to have problems with their stars, but writer-director David O. Russell had an unusual conflict while shooting his second feature film last year: Should he or should he not tell Alan Alda he had been a waiter at Alda's daughter's wedding just a few years earlier? "Every time I was about to, I thought, 'Don't tell him. He's not going to take your direction the same way if he knows that...
Whichever side prevails, the courtroom shenanigans and attendant publicity threw uncommon, and some would say unwelcome, light on one of publishing's oddest sidelines. The rise of the celebrity novel--of books that may or may not have been written by the famous names on the covers--can be traced back to the mid-1960s. Then, Jacqueline Susann and her husband-- press agent Irving Mansfield so relentlessly promoted her on TV and wherever else prospective readers could be buttonholed that Susann's novel Valley of the Dolls (1966) became a monster best seller. Other novels followed from her teeming...
...posting of course grades alongside student names and identification numbers lacks both sense and sensibility. In the first place, the debate is somewhat removed from reality because while the official Information for Instructors handbook prohibits professors from posting grades by either ID number or name, the practice is not uncommon among the Faculty. Further, the rule itself is misguided in that, if enforced, students will be prevented from receiving their grades in a timely fashion. And, finally, the current edition of the Teaching Fellows' Handbook, published by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, reads, "Teaching Fellows should not post...